The City of Yonkers opened an incubator for emerging businesses that it dubbed its Y-Enterprise Business Center as part of a broader program to attract high-growth businesses to Yonkers. The program hopes to accommodate entrepreneurs in the start-up phase who have only one to two employees and entrepreneurs seeking to expand their customer bases who [...]

The Plug and Play Tech Center is expanding its overseas reach. Next up: building stronger ties with some of America’s top universities. Saeed Amidi, chief executive of the Silicon Valley incubator, said that last year, 60 companies from Europe, Asia and other parts of the world spent three months at Plug and Play’s facilities, as [...]

ICAP, the U.K.-based money broker, said Wednesday it has launched a seed fund and accelerator program for startups developing specialized financial technology, such as post trade risk management systems. The new fund, Euclid Opportunities, will seek to support and commercialize promising under-funded technologies, the firm said. It did not say how large a seed fund Euclid would [...]